Center in the News List
Nov 17, 2025
Nearly 10 years after the massive Aliso Canyon gas leak forced thousands of Porter Ranch residents from their homes, new preliminary findings from a UCLA study suggest the blowout may have had long-term health consequences for pregnant women living nearby.
Nov 17, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Arturo Vargas Bustamante was quoted in this story about how cuts to California's CalFresh program could disproportionately affect farmworkers in the state.
Nov 14, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research statistics about who is eligible for government financial assistance to pay for health care coverage whether via Medi-Cal or Covered California was cited in this story.
Nov 13, 2025
Nadereh Pourat, associate center director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided important to a story about the rise of concierge health care, which she noted benefits the wealthy.
Nov 12, 2025
The California Health Interview Survey is cited as an exemplar of state-level health data collection in this opinion piece by the vice president of research, evaluation, and learning and chief science officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the president and founder of the Center for Open Data Enterprise.
Nov 10, 2025
Riti Shimkhada, a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, explained what effects the linguistic and cultural barriers to getting health care can do to older Asian adults, including things like not getting timely appointments, nor getting access to primary care or specialty care.
Nov 08, 2025
AJ Scheitler, director of the Data Equity Center at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided important context about how college students and their academic success are affected by food insecurity.
Nov 06, 2025
California Health Interview Survey data were cited in an opinion column about how the lack of affordable housing in Santa Cruz County is causing psychological stress among young and middle-aged residents.
Nov 04, 2025
A story about Parivar, a local nonprofit that launched its first legal-aid program for transgender immigrants, cited a study from the Williams Institute that used population data from the California Health Interview Survey.
Nov 03, 2025
A UCLA CHPR study about college students and food insecurity on campus is cited in a story about California colleges preparing for delays in CalFresh benefits because of the government shutdown.